The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-22
FLORIDA.


Key West has new daily, the Euening
CdU
Fernandina water works pipes are being
put down.
A new paper called the Breeze has been
started at New Smyrna.
Oats look well in the vicinity of ITALIA
hassee, and the yield will be fair.
The rice-birds have done great damage
TO young oats in jefferson county.
At Sanford the HotchlCss block, two
story brick, is rapidly nearing completion.
Capt j. E. Low, living near Green Cove
Springs, has fine crop of apricots.
The Blue and the Gray will jointly cele-
brate Decoration Day at Jacksonville on
May 80.
Bridgeville is the name of new postofice
established within the limits of Putnam
county.
Watermelons were sold at Cash & Curry's
auction room, Key West, Monday, as low as
35c. and 40c. 10 =
Now comes Breoksyilleo with four-legged
chickens. What won't Fernando county
turn out nextf ia
The Key West police arrest boys for fly
ing kites, for lack of heavier animals to
tackle, probably. - AN-1
The schooner George Jurgens, with a cargo
Monday from Apalachieola.
w. E. Coleman, of Green Cove Springs, is
enjoying ripe raspberries raised on his lot
He thinks they are pretty good.
At Belleview the nights just past have
been almost too cool, the thermometer run
ming nearly down to so farenheit.
George Z. Campbell, of Lake Weir, made
a shipment this week of $4,000 young seed
ling orange trees to Riverside, Cal.
Fernando J. Moreno, of Key West, is
spoken of for Marshal of the United States
for the Southern District of Florida.
Lyman Phelps, of Sanford, was painfully
injured few days since by being thrown
from buggy by frightened horse
Waldo people are claiming that they are
having their second crops of Strawberries,
and they taste just too nice for anything.
The Jacksonville committee have begun
work soliciting subscriptions for the Sub
Tropical" They report great encourage
ment.
The Ocala Ledger is new aspirant for
public favors from the hands of the col
ored people, in which behalf it is pub
lished.
There are three companies that. desire
possession of the new fire engine at St.
Augustine, and all are in a frst-claSs squabble
over it.
Porcher L'Engle is building an elegant
residence in LaVilla, which when completed
viii be the handsomest building of its kind
in that city.
jefferson county farmers are harvesting
their oat crops, and are very agreeably dis
appointed to find a better yield than was
anticipated.
j. w. Callaghan, of Green Cove Springs,
has 5000 Kelsey, Japan, plum trees coming
into bearing. He has some forty acres alto
gether in fruits.
j. Morehouse. of Hibernia, brought into
Green Cove the other day a load of cab
bages that averaged from Is pounds to IL
pounds apiece.
w. p. Manley, of Daytona, who has re-
Gently bought about $40, 900 worth of prop
eIty in Daytona and suburbs, is preparing
to build extensively.
The shippers in Julius Ellinger 6, Co. s
cigar factory at Key West struck Monday
on account of some of their number being
discharged every week
A severe hail storm passed over the
southern portion of jefferson county on Fri
day last, doing considerable damage to the
growing crops Of corn and cotton.
An attempt TO burglarize the postoffice
safe at Winter Park was made Monday
night The knob and combination dial were
blOhNAl oll, Oub bAlS bultNGo 10 Reb the
safe open.
Last Sunday night thief broke into the
ticket Office at the South Florida railroad
depot at Auburndale and succeeded in re-
lieving the money drawer of its contents,
some So or 81
The work Of grading the public road be
tween Palatla and Sauble will be begun on
Monday next A large force of men will
turn out, and the work will be pushed TO
completion as rapidly as possible.
There are several Jacksonville gentlemen
mentioned in connection with the Judgeship
Of the new criminal court Of Duval county.
among whom are Messrs. Lotion NJ. Jones,
0. j. II. Summers, and j. l.. Holmes.
The large new turn-table in the yard at
the South Florida railroad shops at Sanford
is sixty feet long, and is all iron and steel
except the ties. With one OF the heaviest
engines on it, it can be turned by one man.
A new hotel is to be built on the PENN
sula fronting Ormond, for Ney q Slosen,
and connected with the main land by a
bridge. A rail track will then be laid and
line Of horse cars will convey passengers
to and fro
II is stated as probable that the Eouofo,.
is shortly TO be transferred by its present
owner TO a syndicate Of CubSa gentlemen.